Machzor shel Sukoth - Form of Prayers for the Feast of Tabernacles.

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 26

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Machzor shel Sukoth - Form of Prayers for the Feast of Tabernacles.

According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. Hebrew with English translation. pp. 11, 48, 4, 180, 20. Lightly stained, few leaves starting. Contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt extra, extremities rubbed, spine taped. 8vo.

New York: Henry Frank 1856

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

<<THE FIRST ASCHKENAZIC SUKOTH MACHZOR PRINTED IN AMERICA.>> Issued alongside a volume for Shavu’oth and Pesach, this “completes the separate German and Polish liturgies begun in 1854” (Goldman 43). Based upon the celebrated Wolf Heidenheim edition, this prayer book was issued by the Jewish printing establishment of Henry (Chaim) Frank of New York, thus enabling the newly rising community of Aschkenazic American Jews to conduct services according to their own custom, as opposed to that of the Sephardic rite. See previous Lot and see Kestenbaum & Company, Sale 58, Lot 18.